Cedars-Sinai Medical Center - Archive Heart Transplant
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2026
July
28,
2026
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
G’bari Gilliam was living the life he had dreamed about since childhood. The professional hip-hop dancer had moved to Los Angeles, built a successful career and was rehearsing for his next performance when his heart suddenly stopped.Gilliam, 32, …
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February
26,
2026
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center and the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai completed 677 solid organ transplants in 2025, setting several new institutional records in liver and lung transplant.Irene Kim, MD, …
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February
06,
2026
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06:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Good Morning America recently interviewed Cedars-Sinai cardiologist Erika Jones, MD, and Laura DiChiacchio, MD, PhD, a cardiothoracic surgeon in the Smidt Heart Institute, to discuss the heart transplant received by Christopher “Kid” Reid of the …
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2025
July
03,
2025
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The Department of Cardiac Surgery in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai has earned a prestigious rating achieved by the top heart surgery programs in the U.S.The three-star quality rating from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons is the …
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February
28,
2025
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08:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center and the Smidt Heart Institute set a new record in 2024 by completing 682 solid organ transplants—the most the medical center has performed in a year—as patient survival outcomes continued to meet or …
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February
06,
2025
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06:30 AM
America/Los_Angeles
When life gets bleak for Destany Epps-Manuel, 36, she knows the only way to go is forward.That’s what she’s been doing since she was 22, when she was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy, a rare disease that causes the heart muscle to weaken and, …
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January
03,
2025
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07:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The anticoagulant drug enoxaparin can be a safe and cost-effective method to prevent blood clotting in patients with heart pumps who require alternative anticoagulation without the need for hospitalization (“bridging” procedures), provided that …
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2024
July
01,
2024
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06:15 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Jon Kobashigawa, MD, director of the Heart Transplant Program in the Department of Cardiology in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, has assumed the top volunteer leadership position of the American Society of Transplantation.As of June, …
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April
29,
2024
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
Charles Schulz and his wife, Flor, sat in their living room on New Year’s Eve 2023, watching TV and counting down the seconds until the ball dropped in New York’s Times Square. After the clock struck midnight, the couple kissed and Flor said to her …
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February
02,
2024
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08:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
The Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Transplant Center and Smidt Heart Institute together completed 652 solid organ transplants in 2023, far outpacing Cedars-Sinai’s internal record set just one year ago, when surgeons completed 583 transplants.Known for …
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2023
December
04,
2023
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06:00 AM
America/Los_Angeles
This holiday season, Valance Sams, Sr. hopes to finish the most important thank-you note he’s ever written—one he’s been pondering for months. It’s been challenging to get all that he wants to say down on paper, in just the right way. Most days, a …
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